The Morning Wire / Alabama / Tue Oct 27, 2026

Alabama cattle market

The trading day in one page — Tue, Oct 27

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The market in a line

Tue, Oct 27

Choice cutout closed $2.78 higher at $372.22. 5 Alabama barns reported 320 priced lots.

Feeder steers

Alabama, week of Oct 26 USDA

Weighted across every reported lot, by weight class. Weekly rather than daily — one day's barns are too thin a base for a state figure. Watch the barn count: a weight class carried by one or two barns is a thin figure, not a market.

Weight	Price	vs prior week	Head	Barns
300-399 lb	453.81/cwt	$25.43 lower	74	9
400-499 lb	417.10/cwt	$10.52 higher	116	11
500-599 lb	385.06/cwt	$15.81 higher	259	13
600-699 lb	347.22/cwt	$11.77 higher	146	13
700-799 lb	320.39/cwt	$4.60 higher	59	8
800-899 lb	319.56/cwt	$4.60 lower	66	5

Barn by barn, 500–599 lb steers

Same day, same class USDA

Every barn that sold at least 20 head of this class on Tue, Oct 27, weighted by head. Spread of $11.80 between the top and bottom of 2 barns. An average moves with the cattle that showed up as much as with the buyers in the seats — a yard with better grade will average higher on the same demand. This is where the money landed, not a verdict on the barn.

Barn	State	Average	Head
Uniontown Stockyards	AL	397.74/cwt	53
Opp Stockyards	AL	385.94/cwt	27

Boxed beef

National · PM close · Oct 27 USDA

Choice $372.22, $2.78 higher. Select $358.85, $1.29 higher. The Choice–Select spread stands at $13.37. 120 loads traded.

Fed cattle

National · Negotiated cash, week to date USDA

671 head traded Oct 21–Oct 27.

Region	Basis	Price	Head
Iowa-Minnesota	Dressed Delivered	361.31	432
Iowa-Minnesota	Live FOB	225.66	239

At the Alabama barns

USDA market reporters, as filed USDA

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cattle sold 2.00 to 4.00 lower. Replacement cattle sold firm. Feeder steers were 3.00 to 6.00 higher. Feeder heifers were unevenly steady. Feeder bulls sold sharply higher.
Uniontown Stockyards · Alabama

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cattle sold steady. Feeder steers and bulls sold unevenly steady, feeder heifers sold 7.00 to 10.00 lower. Replacement cattle sold steady. Trade active with good demand.
Cullman Stockyards · Alabama

Compared to two weeks ago: Slaughter bulls sold 2.00 to 3.00 lower. Slaughter cows sold mostly steady. Feeder cattle sold unevenly steady. Trade active with good demand on feeders. Replacement cattle market lightly tested.
Arab Stockyards · Alabama

Compared to one week ago: Feeder steers and bulls sold 2.00 to 4.00 higher, feeder heifers sold 2.00 to 3.00 lower. Slaughter cows sold steady to 2.00 higher. slaughter bulls sold steady. Replacement cows and pairs sold mostly steady.
Lineville Stockyards · Alabama

Compared to one week ago: Slaughter cows sold 2.00 to 7.00 lower. Slaughter bulls sold sharply lower on a light test. Feeder steers and bulls sold steady to 5.00 higher with instances up to 12.00 higher. Feeder heifers sold 2.00 to 8.00 lower. Replacement cows and pairs sold steady.
Opp Stockyards · Alabama

Cows and bulls

National direct, dressed USDA

Class	Price	Direction	Head
Breaker (75% lean)	241.16/cwt	$2.32 lower	575
Boner (85% lean)	248.81/cwt	$1.32 lower	1,608
Cutter (90% lean)	252.76/cwt	$0.88 lower	3,103
Premium White	264.75/cwt	$3.66 higher	892
Bull (92% lean)	311.92/cwt	$3.87 lower	379

What published

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Source: USDA AMS. Feeder prices and barn comment are Alabama only; boxed beef, fed cattle and the cow market are national, because those markets are. Every figure is USDA's as filed, and the direction words — higher, lower, steady— follow the arithmetic rather than an opinion. Quoted comment is the work of USDA market reporters, credited to the sale it came from. This is RaisedBeef's rendering of USDA data, not a copy of USDA's document and not endorsed by USDA.